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Articles on Consciousness
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Are you a worry wart? Not to worry. Turns out you were born that way, to some degree. Humans have a default mode in their brains that lead them to worry, but there are many ways to switch gears.
At the heart of the debate is that most fundamental question: what does it mean to be human?
This World Philosophy Day we remember three female philosophers who are largely unknown, yet made important contributions to idealism
One day we will have a science of consciousness, but it won’t be science as we know it today
Brain functions integrate and compress multiple components of an experience, including sight and smell – which simply can't be handled in the way computers sense, process and store data.
When seconds stretch into minutes.
Plants clearly lack brains but does all intelligence have to look like our own?
Consciousness has long been debated, particularly in the decades since devices have been used to keep people alive after brain injury. A new study suggests that some people can "wake up" after injury.
The only consciousness you can ever be certain about is your own. But there are different types of clues that could hint at what's happening within another entity.
Is everything about who we are contained within our brains?
How long does the brain remain conscious after decapitation?
Specific brain networks are at work when we are conscious. New results can help distinguish truly unconscious patients from those who have some degree of consciousness.
If consciousness is a by-product of our brains' nonconscious processes, where does that leave us?
Science is creating new living matter – like stem cells grown to create brain tissues in the lab. With power comes responsibility and what matters is an ethical question, not a scientific one.
A resonance theory of consciousness suggests that the way all matter vibrates, and the tendency for those vibrations to sync up, might be a way to answer the so-called 'hard problem' of consciousness.
Video feedback may be the nearest we have to visualising what conscious processing in the brain is like.
Consciousness final frontier of science?
Do you want to live forever? If so, you might want to think again.
Researchers' views depend in part on what technology is (or will be) capable of – and in part on what consciousness actually is.
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Hon Professor of Neuropsychology, Cardiff University
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Regents Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Oklahoma State University
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Emeritus Professor of Psychology, UCL
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Affiliate Guest in Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara
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Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Leeds Beckett University
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Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Durham University
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Professor of AI at UNSW, Research Group Leader, Data61
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Associate Professor, Data Science and AI, Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University
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Senior Research Fellow, Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford
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Associate professor, University of Melbourne
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Honorary Fellow, Australian Catholic University
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Visiting Professor in Biomedical Ethics, Murdoch Children's Research Institute; Distinguished Visiting Professor in Law, University of Melbourne; Uehiro Chair in Practical Ethics, University of Oxford
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Lecturer in Critical Thinking; Curriculum Director, UQ Critical Thinking Project, The University of Queensland
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Researcher in brain electrodynamics at the Centre for Neural Engineering, University of Melbourne
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Professor, School for the Future of Innovation in Society & School of Computing, Informatics and Decision Systems Engineering, Arizona State University
